A man’s desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world. – Helen Rowland
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. – Helen Rowland
After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him. – Helen Rowland
A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. – Helen Rowland
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar – a practice which is still continued. – Helen Rowland
A man’s heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant. – Helen Rowland
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her. – Helen Rowland
The hardest task in a girl’s life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious. – Helen Rowland
In love, somehow, a man’s heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place. – Helen Rowland
Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor. – Helen Rowland
Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course. – Helen Rowland
What a man calls his ‘conscience’ is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love. – Helen Rowland
The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity. – Helen Rowland
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor. – Helen Rowland
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all. – Helen Rowland
A woman’s flattery may inflate a man’s head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her. – Helen Rowland
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. – Helen Rowland